[Info-vax] OpenVMS in the future, Open sourced or Closed? Intent is to keep it...

[Bob Koehler]

In article <6baf80cf-e53d-403a-92d1-c807645ca248 at googlegroups.com>, seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> writes:
> On Thursday, May 7, 2015 at 8:07:55 AM UTC-5, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <36636a35-b912-43bc-a798-b397d8bb8f0f at googlegroups.com>, seasoned_geek <> writes:
>> > 
>> > I guess you are really hard of hearing then. AWS has had massive outages mu=
>> > ltiple times all due to hardware failures. One outage stretched on for a we=
>> > ek for many subscribing sites because Amazon fried sooooo many x86 servers =
>> > in a single day they exceeded the JIT inventory system of their supplier.
>> 
>>    Right.  You're paying so much attention to waht I said.
>> 
>>    Let's pick an example.  Tell me about your decades of experience
>>    running iRMK on x86 in critical applications.
> 
> An intelligent individual would never ever put anything "critical" on a joke of a processor.
> 
> Wal-mart pricing happens for a reason.

Some of these happen to be radiation hardened and/or space quailfied. 
And the folks who made the recomendation had earlier earned there respect
in the business by working with DoD.